5 reasons to get excited about ‘True Detective’ season 2

If you were a fan of "True Detective" last season, get ready to
be addicted to the upcoming season two.

But if you’re late to the game and never watched season
one, don’t worry, it’s a whole new cast and whole new
story. Though show creator Nic Pizzolatto has kept a
few things the same.

We got a chance to see the
first few episode of the second season of the hit HBO drama and
put together a few reasons you should be excited for
June 21st.

1. The new cast is looking good

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Many were skeptical that the cast for
season two could top the performances by Matthew McConaughey and
Woody Harrelson in the first season. But it’s certainly looking
from the first few episodes that Pizzolatto has found the right
group to play this season’s twisted souls.

Ray Velcoro (Colin Farrell), Ani Bezzerides (Rachel McAdams), and
Paul Woodrugh (Taylor Kitsch) are cops from different departments
who are forced to work together to solve a murder. But like the
first season, all these officers have dark personal lives and
ulterior motives that will be fun to see play out through the
talents of Farrell, McAdams, and Kitsch.

And then there’s Vince Vaughn playing shady businessman Frank
Semyon, who might be trying to go legit thanks to a new venture
he’s getting off the ground. But with his business partner
recently coming up dead, it’s looking like Semyon's dark side
will soon show itself. Trust us, Vaughn playing evil is going to
be good.

2. Who killed Casper?
Like the murder of Dora Lange in season one, the murder of city
manager Ben Casper, who was also Semyon’s business partner, is
the incident that has brought all our main characters together.
Casper is a no show for Semyon’s unveiling party for his proposed
high-speed train line through the middle of the state. Later that
evening, Woodrugh finds Casper up the coast dead with his eyes
burn out with acid. The whodunit is now in place for season two
as not just the police want to know who did this to Casper, but
Semyon too.

3. From Bayou to industrial

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As season one was filled with the woods and swamps of Louisiana,
we’ve now been drastically moved to concrete and smog in
California. The main area of Los Angeles County we find ourselves
in is Vinci, an industrial city that’s known best for its crooked
politicians and having the worst air pollution in the state. As
our main characters try to figure out who killed Capser, Vinci’s
decrepit landscape looks to be our main setting.

4. Flat circles to wavy lines
The super fans of season one couldn’t get enough of searching for
secrets buried in the shots and production design of every
episode. Especially its theme of circles. With Los Angeles’
endless freeways and roads along the pacific coast (and the
proposed train line), it looks like this season’s theme will be
lines that go as far as the horizon. An appropriate feel as the
director of numerous episodes this season is “Fast and Furious”
franchise alum Justin Lin.

5. There will be blood
It’s become apparent that Nic Pizzolatto loves two things,
dialogue and violence. And season two has a lot of each. So far
Farrell and Vaughn’s characters have delivered the most powerful
dialogue-driven performances, but we’ll certainly see all the
leads get their moment in the spotlight. And when it comes to
brutality, be sure not to miss the first episode as Farrell’s
Velcoro character has a laps in judgment that’s as twisted as
anything from the first season.